More breaking news. The committee has received official photos from the national archives.

[fightforfreedom]

The committee has been putting together a detailed time line of what exactly was happening in the Whitehouse during the attack. They have official Whitehouse photos, testimony, diary entries. They have a ton of evidence that could prove Trump and others were supportive of the attack on the capital. They watched it and did not try to stop it.

[cilla4progress]

1. Not to be redundant and obtuse...

but didn't we witness this in real time with our own eyes??!

[Novara]

2. We weren't inside the White House

The official photographer was. And it sounds like he documented evidence of what was happening inside.

We've heard of what happened; now maybe we'll get a chance to see it.

[SergeStorms]

21. There's metadata on each photograph.

Possibly the photographers name, time of photo, settings on the camera etc. There's a wealth of information there to help the J6 committee put together a timeline of everyone's actions.

[Eyeball_Kid]

34. Any photo of Trump on the phone...

will possess the exact time the photo was taken. If it was inside the “blackout” time period in which there is no record of calls, then it’s evidence tampering.

[SergeStorms]

43. Yepper!

Then the committee will have the Big Orange Pig by the short and curlies.

[Bev54]

5. No we watched the capitol buildings in real time

[cilla4progress]

10. Ahh...yes..

makes sense

[ananda]

20. I know. It's making me crazy waiting for the obvious.

!!!

[ProudMNDemocrat]

3. Can we say BOMBSHELL evidence???

A photographic journal of that day at the White House in the hands of the Jan.6th committee, TDFG and his cronies have to be sweating bullets.

Thank you, President Biden for not giving Executive Privilege to TDFG regarding that day.

[NQAS]

15. No

The word bombshell should be banned on DU.

If nothing happens, it’s not a bombshell; it’s a dud.

And if something happens, it’s still not a bombshell. It’s a natural progression based on the evidence.

A bombshell would be that there’s no evidence to support an indictment.

But let’s just stop using that word.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

24. My apologies.

[jaxexpat]

32. Me too. A bombshell is what's left when the bomb has already exploded.

Hyperbole serves no purpose for people who cherish truth.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

36. Yes, "bombshell" is too much hyperobole, but it is not an exploded casing

It is not the empty casing of an exploded bomb. A bombshell is a shell with an explosive. The "bomb" part has dropped away and hence "shelling" and "heavy shelling of Mariupol", etc.

Gunpowder is a low explosive, meaning it will not create a concussive, brisant explosion unless it is contained, as in a modern-day pipe bomb or pressure cooker bomb. Early grenades were hollow cast-iron balls filled with gunpowder, and "shells" were similar devices designed to be shot from artillery in place of solid cannonballs ("shot"). Metonymically, the term "shell", from the casing, came to mean the entire munition.

In a gunpowder-based shell, the casing was intrinsic to generating the explosion, and thus had to be strong and thick. Its fragments could do considerable damage, but each shell broke into only a few large pieces. Further developments led to shells which would fragment into smaller pieces. The advent of high explosives such as TNT removed the need for a pressure-holding casing, so the casing of later shells only needs to contain the munition, and, if desired, to produce shrapnel. The term "shell," however, was sufficiently established that it remained as the term for such munitions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shell_%28projectile%29

[jaxexpat]

39. It was cool imagery though.

The idea of pieces of exploded metal which are all that remain of a malevolent power, exhausted, rendered impotent. Thanks for the clarification, senor de La Paz.

[Silent3]

33. I'd consider it a "bombshell" if a significant portion of the population acted like they gave a fuck

Alas, in that regard, I think bombshells have ceased to exist, or to even be possible, in the realm of Republican scandals and outright crimes.

[LudwigPastorius]

47. "The word bombshell should be banned on DU."

So, I guess calling a pending information drop an "ultra-mega-pschyo-stunning-supernova" would be right out, eh?

[lefthandedskyhook]

53. No word should be banned on DU

nt

[Bev54]

4. I wonder how many of the photos will show Trump talking on the phone

when the doctored call logs show no calls for over 7 hours. If they have photos, I wonder if there might just be some video as well. I sure hope so, it would be quite interesting to watch.

[electric_blue68]

6. Aaah... 🤔

[Budi]

7. Or photos of all of them watching it happen on a bigscreen

..in the oval office, applauding, high-fiving each other, laughing, like the biggest party of the century.

Photos don't lie..

[Eyeball_Kid]

35. There exists a published photo

Of Trumpy-Boy in a room with his inner circle watching the TV during the storming of the Capitol. But there are probably hundreds more.

[Budi]

37. There must be more. Laughing & whoopin it up, as the US Capitol is under siege

Everyone at the party needs to go down hard.

Photos documented in the Congressional Record forever & ever.

[C Moon]

13. Oh wow!

[Hoyt]

8. Got a link to these photos that show trump was calling shots from WH? Would think

those photos, security tapes, etc., have been reviewed a year or more ago by the Committee, DOJ, thousands of investigative journalist wannabees, etc. And would have reported it to DOJ if they found Loudermilk -- or some other GOPer -- with proudboyz day before insurrectionist.

Suspect DOJ investigators looked at them too. If there had been something like that, doubt the DOJ would have held back going after Loudermilk.

In any event, should be easy to prove or disprove.

[Bev54]

12. I am not sure when they were released but I expect they were in with

the documents that Biden had released with no privilege. There have been drops of documents at different times.

[Kingofalldems]

17. Oh really?

Got a link that they have been reviewed?

[Hoyt]

19. You think Committee, DOJ, FBI, 1000s of Woodward/Bernstein wannabes, didn't try to review photos?

[Kingofalldems]

23. So you don't have any proof.

[Hoyt]

28. And you have no proof there is anything in those photos other than trump looking stupid in WH.

We keep looking though. I'm hopeful the Committee will come up with something beyond more and more evidence trump is unfit for office. But, I have my doubts so far.

[Just_Vote_Dem]

29. Do you ever read posts here and think,

Troll or mole?

I do.

[ShazzieB]

38. In a word: yes.

Yes, I definitely ask myself that from time to time. Not constantly, but every so often, there's something that sets off my trolldar.

[Hoyt]

41. Do you ever read posts anywhere on internet that you wonder if people

didn’t just copy or accept something with no evidence other than it was on internet?

I despise trump as much as anyone, but not accepting everything I read especially when I think a voter backlash will occur if there is no hard evidence to many of the allegations. “You know he did it,” is not evidence.

[lefthandedskyhook]

52. Precisely

Although our courts are very very broken, standards of evidence remain on the books and must be followed. Our entire legal system needs a health upgrade, especially the so called Supreme Court

[CrackityJones75]

48. Constantly.

There is a lot of it.

[SledDriver]

9. The fact that the Capitol was attacked and there was no effort

to evacuate the POTUS to a secure location tells you everything you need to know about who planned and carried out the attack.

[cilla4progress]

11. Well, this was what

I was getting at. Like the picture of them watching it on a big screen from inside an awning.

But blow by blow from the WH would be some white gold!

[jcgoldie]

25. The one under the tent with all the Trumps..

If thats what you are referring to , was before his speech. Whats missing is evidence of what he was doing during the insurrection.

[cilla4progress]

26. I get it

now.



Knee-jerk reaction.

[Traildogbob]

14. Excellent point.

[Hoyt]

18. Think Capitol is 1.8 miles from WH. Not sure that would be perceived a threat. But who knows?

[SledDriver]

30. The Secret Service doesn't mess around

When 9/11 happened they got W back on AF1 and in the air. The attacks were in NYC and he was in FL at the time.

[Hoyt]

40. A bunch of imbeciles climbing walls and terrorists flying planes aren't

exactly same.

But, yeah, I’m sure officials in WH weren’t overly concerned about trump loving insurrectionists a couple of miles away. And it’s not like trump didn’t have plenty of security.

[paleotn]

22. Watched it? They organized it and set it in motion.

[Igel]

44. But you can't assume the premise. n/t

[Chainfire]

27. Perhaps, ten years from now, all star, major motion picture will be made about the events

Young people leaving the theater after viewing will be saying, "Wow, why was he never arrested and tried?"

[sop]

31. All the President's Men II

[Shipwack]

42. This would be sweet justice...

Trump screwed over the official White House photographer by taking the pictures she was planning on using in her book and using them in his own photography book. If she could provide photographic evidence to be used against him...

::chef's kiss::

Report: Trump Ripped Off His Own White House Photographer, ’Cause That’s Just the Kind of Dick He Is

[wiggs]

45. What would keep the photographer from testifying about what he saw and heard? nt

[Marcuse]

46. Artist's rendition. The official photos should be better.

[EndlessWire]

50. We can't let this thing back in office. n/t

[EndlessWire]

49. That's great

but where does it say that he had to do anything at all? Sure, we can discredit him and show that he did nothing to protect our institutions and the Capitol, but I'll bet there is no law that says he had to do anything. I want to know who turned alarms off, who gave up blueprints, who opened locked doors, who called whom.

Before you say that I am a troll, I just want to do my daily diatribe and tell you how much I HATE Trump and Repubs and wish they would all crawl back under the rocks out of which they came. But, I look at this news not as some evidentiary smoking gun, but more of a backbone upon which to build the rest of the story. You really can't proceed without it. But, even though we can point to it and show people pResidential malfeasance, I don't think it in and of itself means much.

What I am saying is, I want evidence that Trump organized, requested, facilitated, authorized, etc. etc. And, in view of what the USSC is doing these days, I just will believe an indictment when I see it.

[Justice matters.]

51. There is an Oath to "faithfully execute the Office" or something...

That must include to protect and defend the Congress from ANY criminal attack, either foreign or domestic...

The infamous date was January 20, 2017...

To enjoy watching any attack and doing nothing to try to stop it (even going as far as to tweet accusations of cowardice by the V.P. so the insurrectionists chanted "hang mike pence" over and over while they broke in) is not in that Oath.

[fightforfreedom]

54. The committee has the evidence.

Not doing anything is evidence he wanted it to happen. All the evidence leading up to that day showed he wanted to over turn the election. He knew he lost, we have that evidence. I don't know why some people can't see how overwhelming the evidence is.

When the hearings start that will change.

[MadameButterfly]

55. Yeah, really

These photos are a big deal and WILL help show what Trump was up to on Jan.6.

Hard to get excited when he's gotten away with more than anyone could imagine, but he'll get away with it until he doesn't anymore.

The MAGA folks and their crooked representatives will require a level of proof never needed before (they would say the Nixon tapes were a hoax) but I believe Jamie Raskin and co. understand the task at hand and are equal to it.

It took this long with Watergate.

[2Gingersnaps]

56. The really funny thing is this is probably the White House Photographer TFG ripped off

She had a book deal like most White House photographers get, the former guy held it up, and then released her photographs himself, so he would profit instead of her. Because what is new with the jerk?

Totally tragic that her photos would help incriminate the asshat!

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

59. The committee should subpoena the WH photographer to learn what she knows.

The photographer maintains a "fly on the wall" presence in the course of performing her duties, so she's in a unique position to testify about who was present and what each person said while she was working.

The WH photographer works for us, not Trump. Her testimony is essential to filling in the details of the seven hour gap in the "official record" on that day.

While they are at it, subpoena the WH cooks and staff to testify what they heard and saw on that day.

Just a thought.

[Novara]

57. I'm guessing not a few of the photos will show him on the phone ...

... during the 7-hour gap in the phone records.

[YoshidaYui]

58. Trump watched in glee that he

Had started the Insurrection and all the damage done on the US Capital. They were doing this in Trump’s name, like a cult would. They are dangerous to democracy.